…We are in the process of creating letters hanging…and stretching on what seems to be rubber ropes.…We already set up the initial state of…this composition inside Newton, and saved our progress.…So let's make sure that the composition is still…selected, and let's fire up Newton and finish the animation.…So since the Auto Load Saves settings is enabled in my system and we…are entering the same composition without changing any one of the layers inside…the after effect comes, we can preview the simulation so far and see what we…have managed to achieve by connecting these dots as joints to the letters.…

Okay, I want to finesse it a little bit and define couple of other steps…inside the gravity and the solver here under the global properties.…Let's start with raising the magnitude to a higher value.…I'm going to go with 13, and this will make the gravity to…pull the letters a little bit more towards the bottom of the screen.…Which will also create some kind of a weird…behavior when the letters are actually colliding with themselves.…

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4/11/2014

Explore how to create complex physical animations inside After Effects using Newton (a third-party plugin) and the Connect Layers (a free script). This project-based course covers a few specific and popular types of effects, such as letters suspended from strings and connected, randomized spheres. Artist Eran Stern shows how to connect any type of element together in a complex 3D array of strings and work with different dynamic simulations in order to create Dormant and Collision as well as Staggering and Kinematic animation types.

These lessons are perfect for motion graphics artists who want to create earthy physics simulations and add realistic motion to their projects.